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Saturday 16th June Fixtures... GROUP C France v Australia (11.00) Peru v Denmark (17.00) GROUP D Argentina v Iceland (14.00) Croatia v Nigeria (20.00)

Leslie Grantham aka Dirty Den... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44494734

You can't beat a Manchester Tart...

Robert Poste's Child Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > kings dream Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > rather snobish attitude to have > > If that was aimed at me, I was actually eating > Frosties at the time... Ordinary Cornflakes not good enough for you then!...

Friday 15th June Fixtures... GROUP A Egypt v Uruguay (13.00) GROUP B Morocco v Iran (16.00) Portugal v Spain (19.00)

Trumpy needs to brush up on his maths before telling porkys... Trump claims, preposterously, that parents of Korean War veterans came up to him during the 2016 campaign and said, "when you can, we'd love our son to be brought back home -- you know, the remains." The Korean War ended in 1953.

The Scots are revolting...:)

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ''If she f**ks us, she's f**ked''. > > It's like something from a Quentin Tarantino film. > Of course if she f**ks them she's f**ked. > She's f**ked whatever. > > The UK hasn't planned for a no deal so it would > totally broadside us .. but I hope the Express and > Sun sink first before the rest of us :( In the interest of balance...:) Senior Brexiter: ?If Theresa and Julian have sold us out here they are in real trouble. She reassured us all at the 1922. There is no way she can recover if she has now f**ked us over.?

Parky should be joining up soon, so nearly a full house. After tomorrow's opening fixture, there will be group games every day up to the 28th June, so don't forget to keep making your predictions on a daily basis until then...Bonne chance!

Ooh la la!...https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44467548

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Isn't No Deal a distinct possibility as there is > no way of resolving the Irish border question > without going back of their word or upsetting the > DUP? Absolutely, but May using ''No Deal is better than a bad deal'' as a threat to the EU in negotiations would be a non-starter if the Tory rebels get their way, which I'm sure they will. The EEA option supposedly solves the Irish border conundrum, hence why I think May will eventually have to backtrack on one of her red lines e.g. not staying in the Customs Union. > Mind you I'm still hoping the whole thing will > collapse a bit like a game of Jenga. Personally, even a soft Brexit like the EEA option is still Brexit and bad for the economy and country as a whole, so I'd also prefer to see the whole thing come tumbling down. Ironically that could happen if No Deal was the only thing left on the table after negotiations. It would get vetoed by Parliament, and then a full-blown constitutional crisis develops. That could lead to the People's Vote idea, but would there be enough time, ditto another General Election? So there might only be time to revoke or ask for an extension to A50. And why would the EU extend it knowing that our only other option is to revoke it? Would they want to spend more time and money on further negotiations with such a shambolic/dysfunctional country? Ditto, are there enough Brextremists to torpedo the EEA option or any other deal that doesn't meet with their ideology? Would the EEA or another option pass Labour's 6 tests? Unlikely as one of the tests is that a deal must have the ''exact same benefits''. I can't see any deal in the short time we have left would provide that. The more you dig, the bigger the clusterfuck becomes...

Getting tasty this evening, DExEU released a contentious statement about the concession, one of the rebels' response is ''If she f**ks us, she's f**ked''...:)

That'll be a can of the fudgiest fudge. If rumours of May's concession are true, No Deal Brexit now dead in the water. I think we'll end up with an EEA deal, forever in limbo until we decode to rejoin...without the current benefits. Will be interesting to see how the Mogglodytes respond... ETA: Just to clarify, I was referring to May using No Deal as an option/threat to the EU in negotiations. No Deal could still happen as it's the default option on Brexit Day should the EU and UK not arrive at any deal by then.

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The headline in the Express today is very > provocative again. "Ignore the will of the people > at your peril". Being owned by Trinity Mirror > (now Reach) I thought they might be more > responsible. The Sun's front page is a hotch potch of badly Photoshopped 'British icons'... Windsor Castle...built by a Norman duke; The Mini...designed by a Greek; The Shard...designed by an Italian; And not forgetting The Sun itself...owned by an Australian now an American resident. The best one is the Loch Ness Monster...fictional, just like Brexit :)

There was a campaign to get the Royal Mail to produce a set of 'commemorative' Brexit stamps. Instead we have a set of Dad's Army stamps. Excellent trolling Royal Mail...:)

If you think Corbyn has lost the plot, check out his brother, completely unhinged... #toomanyhashtags

L'alcopops!...

Has keano been reading Brietbart and Infowars again?...:)

Lots of pics on Flickr, including lots of Boris Bikes...:)

Anyone doing 'Beers of the World' this World Cup? If so, there might be a slight problem with the opening fixure... http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/217x240/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/pimages/BaltikaNo2.jpg V

I know who won't...Jeremy Corbyn Meanwhile, Bigmouth strikes again... 2016 - "A door has magically opened in our lives. We can see the sunlit meadows beyond." 2018 - "I don't want anybody to panic during the meltdown" :)

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And here's the fudge :) The UK expects (but it > can expect all it wants if the EU doesn't listen) It's not about the EU not listening, they've made their position perfectly clear. It's the UK with their fingers in their ears. ''Expects'' isn't a legally binding term, which it needs to be, so on that alone it will get rejected. Michel Barnier has already responded ... I welcome publication of #UK proposal on customs aspects of IE/NI backstop. We will examine it with 3 questions: is it a workable solution to avoid a hard border? Does it respect the integrity of the SM/CU? Is it an all-weather backstop? That'lll be a ''Non'' then...:)

It's a time-limited backstop with no time-limit on it :) As someone succinctly put it - So Davis has won the competition to have his version of the backstop rejected by the EU. Bully for him. And so the omnishambles goes on..and on...and on...

It's not only EDF posters who should refrain from the Gin and late night postings...

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > when I looked it doesn't look like it will finish > until around 2023 It needs a backstop, just a question of whether it's time-limited or not, and if is time-limited, they can't say when...:)